Gabriel Boric looked mainly inward in his first speech as president. Hot pepper before United Nations General Assembly. Gustavo Petrohead Colombia, especially outside, made its entrance in the plenary as well. And the two approaches may be different, but they demonstrated the voice and determination of the new with strength and force. latin american left.
The most radical was Petro, a former guerrilla fighter; war against medicinessaying “failed” but capitalist systemor, as he put it, “world power” that guarantees that it has “become irrational”. “The more toxic to humanity: cocaine, coal or OilAt one point in his speech, the Colombian leader denounced “fossil fuel dependency” as well as “consumption, power and money”.
“Bank accounts have become unlimited, the money saved by the world’s most powerful can no longer even be spent in centuries,” he said. “The existential sadness produced by this artificial call to competition fills it with noise and drugs. dependence money and there is another side: drug addiction in people who lost competition, losers of the artificial race that they transformed humanity into. In forests, glyphosate won’t cure loneliness. The forest is not to blame. The culprit is your society educated in endless consumption. consumption Y happiness that, yes, fills pockets of power with money”.
Petro denounced the war in Ukraine, as well as the war in Iraq, Libya and Syria, and assured that they “occupied in the name of oil and gas”. He also affirmed that wars were “invented” and that these wars were an excuse not to act against the state. climate crisis”. After saying “capital is the cause of climate disaster”, he concluded his speech by saying “There can be no total peace without it”. social justiceeconomic and environmental”.
Boric calls for social justice
Shown more introverted but also energetic boricDrawing on the story of the “intense political process” that Chile is going through, inequality Leaving useful lessons on the table about the democratic future leads to discontent and social breakdown. “I invite you to envision the pursuit of more social justice,” he said. to increase sustainable and possible.
Boric once again distanced himself from the idea that the outcome of the plebiscite was a defeat, rejecting the constitutional proposal and making sure to teach them “modesty”. “A government can never feel defeated when the people raise their voices,” he said. And he stated that “one of humanity’s main challenges is precisely building building.” democracies They really talked and listened to the citizens,” he said.
“We have a responsibility to find better answers to the inequalities in our countries, and we also have signs that an increasing number of people feel to us that they are not represented by the rulers or represented by a few forms of government. Decisions are taken by the majority,” Boric said, preferring to respond to citizens’ demands “never with less, with more democracy”.
The Chilean closed his speech with these words: multilateralism with justice and peace. condemned Russia’s “unjust war on Ukraine”violence against women, constant violations against women human rights The situation of the Palestinian people”, the situation of political prisoners in Nicaragua and human rights. “The whole world demands change, and new generations have the right and also the responsibility to think and realize a different future,” he said.